"Too Expensive For Many To Afford." According to the Wisconsin State Journal, "Wisconsin’s high-risk pool system was too expensive for many to afford, left more than half a million state residents uninsured, included a six-month waiting period for coverage of pre-existing conditions and imposed a lifetime coverage cap of $2 million."

Costs That "Were Generally 20% To 30% Higher." And as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has reported previously, Wisconsin's Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan only "worked only for people who could afford insurance in the first place," because high-risk pools were set up in such a way that insurance companies provided coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions -- but only at insurance premium rates that "were generally 20% to 30% higher than the overall market."

"Too Expensive... [Leaving] More Than Half A Million Residents Uninsured."According to the health policy programs director at UW-Madison's Population Health Institute, as quoted in the Wisconsin State Journal, "HIRSP was too expensive for many people and left more than half a million residents uninsured."

"Following her corporate special interest backers from the insurance industry who bankroll ALEC, Leah Vukmir supports multiple efforts to gut protections for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions and wants to return to the days when predatory insurance companies could jack up rates and price Wisconsinites with pre-existing conditions out of coverage," said Brad Bainum, Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson for the 2018 Senate race.